Call Ducks Hatching!!!
Great news! My first call duckling hatched this morning. I’ve posted a few photos below. The second duckling hatched this morning, and three others are currently in the process of hatching. I expect that they will have completely hatched by the morning. Unfortunately, the sixth duckling developed the full term but then died yesterday or today in the egg. Nonetheless, 5 out of 6 ducklings is a very good hatch rate, particularly when considering that these duckling were from shipped eggs. We are looking forward to watching these duckling’s foster mom (i.e. a bantam chicken hen) raise her “chicks”.
Update (July 15th): Out of the six eggs, five ducklings ended up hatching. By this morning, all of them had dried off, were moving around quite a bit, and seem healthy and happy. I gave them some water, and they began eating today. The hen seems as proud as can be of her new brood. Here are some updated photos…
Recently Hatched White Call Ducklings
July 15th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Oh. My. Gosh. Those are unbelieveably adorable!! Please, please keep the photos coming. Congratulations!!!!
July 16th, 2009 at 6:38 am
How many did you end up getting?? Those are so cute it’s almost ridiculous!
August 19th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Out of the 6 eggs, 5 ducklings hatched. One of those died after a day three. So I ended up with four ducklings.